TrustRadius: an HG Insights company

Save this comparison

Save this comparison

Add Product

Recommended Comparisons

    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Adobe Commerce

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/AAdobe Commerce delivers personalized shopping at scale. Delivered as Adobe Commerce as a Cloud Service (ACCS), it boosts conversion with an AI-powered storefront, built-in merchandising, and GenAI-driven content. ACCS supports rapid expansion through multi-site, multi-language, and multi-brand capabilities, handling millions of SKUs, complex catalogs, and custom pricing. Always-on SaaS innovation lowers total cost of ownership by removing upgrade overhead and minimizing…N/A

    Magnolia

    Score8.1 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    Founded in Switzerland in 1997, Magnolia is a CMS used to build composable digital experiences. Magnolia helps create fully integrated customer experiences and speeds up digital delivery of content. Magnolia boasts 480 enterprise customers, thousands of Community Edition deployments, and more than 200 certified Magnolia Partners around the world. They further state that their enterprise customers include Sanofi, Generali, the Atlassian, The New York Times, Harley Davidson, and Union…

    $3,500

    per month

    Pricing
    Adobe CommerceMagnolia
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    DX Core
    $3500
    per month
    DX Cloud
    $6000
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Adobe CommerceMagnolia
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsMust contact sales team for pricing.—
    More Pricing Information
    Community Pulse
    Adobe CommerceMagnolia
    Considered Both Products
    Adobe
    No answer on this topic
    Magnolia
    Chose Magnolia
    Magnolia is a good solution where you have a very simple buying and checkout process and don't require the additional flexibility or additional functionality built on top of the framework.
    Incentivized
    Chose Magnolia
    Magnolia was the product of choice from the wider business group when it was implemented a number of years ago. In general, it stacks up fairly well against the other products, although there could be a slightly easier interface when creating pages. Workflows are one area which …
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    84%
    Would buy again
    16 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
    58 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    13 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    49 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    95%
    Happy with the feature set
    18 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    58 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    93%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    14 Answers
    98%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    39 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    67%
    Implementation went as expected
    10 Answers
    98%
    Implementation went as expected
    53 Answers
    Features
    Adobe CommerceMagnolia
    Online Storefront
    Comparison of Online Storefront features of Adobe Commerce and Magnolia
    Feature
    Adobe Commerce
    7.6
    34 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Magnolia
    -
    Ratings
    Product catalog & listings8.233 Ratings00 Ratings
    Product management9.034 Ratings00 Ratings
    Bulk product upload8.829 Ratings00 Ratings
    Branding6.130 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile storefront5.232 Ratings00 Ratings
    Product variations7.132 Ratings00 Ratings
    Website integration9.132 Ratings00 Ratings
    Visual customization9.034 Ratings00 Ratings
    CMS6.133 Ratings00 Ratings
    Online Shopping Cart
    Comparison of Online Shopping Cart features of Adobe Commerce and Magnolia
    Feature
    Adobe Commerce
    6.2
    33 Ratings
    21% below category average
    Magnolia
    -
    Ratings
    Abandoned cart recovery5.228 Ratings00 Ratings
    Checkout user experience7.133 Ratings00 Ratings
    Online Payment System
    Comparison of Online Payment System features of Adobe Commerce and Magnolia
    Feature
    Adobe Commerce
    6.3
    33 Ratings
    27% below category average
    Magnolia
    -
    Ratings
    eCommerce security6.333 Ratings00 Ratings
    eCommerce Marketing
    Comparison of eCommerce Marketing features of Adobe Commerce and Magnolia
    Feature
    Adobe Commerce
    7.3
    32 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Magnolia
    -
    Ratings
    Promotions & discounts7.332 Ratings00 Ratings
    Personalized recommendations8.129 Ratings00 Ratings
    SEO6.429 Ratings00 Ratings
    eCommerce Business Management
    Comparison of eCommerce Business Management features of Adobe Commerce and Magnolia
    Feature
    Adobe Commerce
    8.9
    34 Ratings
    10% above category average
    Magnolia
    -
    Ratings
    Multi-site management10.027 Ratings00 Ratings
    Order processing8.233 Ratings00 Ratings
    Inventory management8.233 Ratings00 Ratings
    Shipping8.931 Ratings00 Ratings
    Custom functionality9.133 Ratings00 Ratings
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Adobe Commerce and Magnolia
    Feature
    Adobe Commerce
    -
    Ratings
    Magnolia
    8.1
    70 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Role-based user permissions00 Ratings8.170 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Adobe Commerce and Magnolia
    Feature
    Adobe Commerce
    -
    Ratings
    Magnolia
    8.1
    69 Ratings
    7% above category average
    API00 Ratings8.562 Ratings
    Internationalization / multi-language00 Ratings7.762 Ratings
    Web Content Creation
    Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Adobe Commerce and Magnolia
    Feature
    Adobe Commerce
    -
    Ratings
    Magnolia
    8.0
    75 Ratings
    4% above category average
    WYSIWYG editor00 Ratings8.566 Ratings
    Code quality / cleanliness00 Ratings8.466 Ratings
    Admin section00 Ratings8.071 Ratings
    Page templates00 Ratings8.973 Ratings
    Library of website themes00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Mobile optimization / responsive design00 Ratings8.564 Ratings
    Publishing workflow00 Ratings7.574 Ratings
    Form generator00 Ratings6.959 Ratings
    Web Content Management
    Comparison of Web Content Management features of Adobe Commerce and Magnolia
    Feature
    Adobe Commerce
    -
    Ratings
    Magnolia
    7.5
    70 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Content taxonomy00 Ratings7.664 Ratings
    SEO support00 Ratings7.264 Ratings
    Bulk management00 Ratings7.658 Ratings
    Availability / breadth of extensions00 Ratings7.963 Ratings
    Community / comment management00 Ratings6.952 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Adobe CommerceMagnolia
    Small Businesses
    Ecwid by Lightspeed
    Score10 out of 10
    Umbraco CMS
    Score6.8 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Shopify Plus
    Score9 out of 10
    Square Online
    Score7.4 out of 10
    Enterprises
    IBM Digital Commerce
    Score9 out of 10
    RWS Tridion Sites
    Score9 out of 10
    All AlternativesView all alternativesView all alternatives
    User Ratings
    Adobe CommerceMagnolia
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.3
    (42 ratings)
    8.1
    (79 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (9 ratings)
    8.1
    (9 ratings)
    Usability
    4.0
    (2 ratings)
    8.0
    (69 ratings)
    Availability
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.5
    (68 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    Online Training
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Adobe CommerceMagnolia
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Adobe
    Primarily B2C focused, I think that the B2B features are increasing but the core focus of the platform (and Magento) is really consumer-based. That said, if you are looking for the fastest time to market with minimal investment option then Adobe Commerce is likely not the option that 9 out of 10 people would opt for nowadays.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Magnolia
    Magnolia is a very capable DXP, that provides client with lots of flexibility in composing its own stack. While the core of the platform is a content management system, the open architecture of Magnolia DXP allows it to connect to any platform, allowing client to extend the capabilities. One scenario would be a centralized content hub - where through a single platform, content authors can choose which channel to distribute what content. For example, long form content for consumers viewing on a laptop, short form content for those using a mobile browser. This allow the client to personalized the experience based on channels. Another scenarios would be leveraging on GenAI - using Magnolia's built-in connector to ChatGPT. If that is not the service that one desire, you can always connect to another AI service such as Google Gemini. With GenAI, connected, content author can use AI as co-pilot to help them scale up their content production.
    Read full review
    Pros
    Adobe
    • The ease of use with page builder requiring no developer skills to maintain most of our pages.
    • The catalog is straightforward and easy to use and having the ability to update pricing and other key pieces based on customer group is very helpful.
    • Many of the extensions Adobe Commerce has help us to do what we need to do more quickly without a great deal of development efforts and cost.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Magnolia
    • Speed of development - time to delivery from zero to MVP was excellent
    • Ease of use - the authoring experience is very easy to build and train
    • PAAS/SAAS - the managed service platform removed the traditional overhead of running in-house technologies, meaning we could focus on value add, with less time spent keeping the lights on.
    Read full review
    Cons
    Adobe
    • Magento Commerce Cloud can be complicated to develop for. In our field, it has been a struggle at times to find qualified developers.
    • Our merchandising team sees performance issues from time to time. Updating a product and waiting for the change to clear the queue can take up to an hour in some situations.
    • Because of the incredible amount of features that Magento Commerce Cloud offers, training new employees to use Magento takes a long time.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Magnolia
    • The documentation provides samples that are often out of context, and difficult to know where the provided example code should be implemented. More tutorials providing the full project or step-by-step instructions on how to implement subject material would help greatly. Baeldung is a resource I would consider the gold standard in how this is done in other spaces.
    • The use of JCR and Nodes makes object serialization/deserialization painful. Jackson compatibility or similar would be a welcome enhancement to the developer experience. Maybe leveraging code-gen from light modules to build model classes when possible could help accomplish this.
    • Modifying the home layout from light modules is frustrating. It seems that any configuration overrides made merge with the default rather than overwriting, which makes for a difficult combination of guess-and-check while referencing the documentation to see what should be in each row/column when making changes.
    • Including "mark all as read" or "delete all" in the notifications app would be a great quality of life improvement. It seems that by default, users have to individually select messages and operate them.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Likelihood to Renew
    Adobe
    It has the best overall price point. It is super cheap and the connection between our ERP system is unmatched by any other Ecommerce sites we have talked with. We honestly can't get this level of complex customization without having to spend a fortune somewhere else. It is able to do everything we need it to do for the right price.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Magnolia
    We have invested a lot of time and energy into tailoring a solution that works for the company.
    We think the new features in v6.2 will help us get to the next level
    We also don't have the resources to rebuild a website platform from scratch even if we wanted to
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Usability
    Adobe
    Being unable to store quotes for later was annoying. People called up expecting to pay there and then, and having to place them on hold whilst you added items to the basket and input all their customer information in was annoying for them and us, making us look unprofessional.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Magnolia
    We've shown it to a number of users both clients and our own team and despite initial apprehensions, they "get it" very quickly. It's intuitive and friendly and quick to perform daily tasks. We once had a client tell us "Using Magnolia makes me smile" which says it all for us.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Performance
    Adobe
    No answers on this topic
    Magnolia
    I gave [it] 7/10 only because of the loading time of pages. Otherwise, I think it deserves an 8. Normally this is not an issue per [se] but considering the rating matrix and as I have been asked to honestly write about it. Yes, the page loading times could be improved.
    Read full review
    Support Rating
    Adobe
    The technical service was impeccable. They were on point and were very knowledgeable.
    Read full review
    Magnolia
    You always get an answer based on your SLA. But you always get a solution. That's the successfactor in this case. To often i was frustrated about people in a company without even a clue what there product is about or how to solve a problem. Magnolia's Support Team does a very good job and try to help you in most of the cases
    Read full review
    Online Training
    Adobe
    Great value for an flexible, open source platform.
    Read full review
    Magnolia
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    Adobe
    Magento Commerce was previously put into place and used right when I came onboard. We used it for quite some time, but ultimately the need for our company's specific customizations became too difficult to manage during core updates. We specifically needed a more specialized way of calculating shipping, connecting with our 3PL's inventory API, managing specialized discounts and codes, and even the way we showcased information on the product pages.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Magnolia
    I've used several CMSs like AEM and EpiServer, and comparatively, they all excel at different things. Magnolia is the best to develop for/against. Episerver has the best/most fluid UI in terms of content editing, and the overall admin experience AEM is just all around sucks.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Return on Investment
    Adobe
    • Great for SEO. We have been able to build out a huge number of highly targeted pages on the site that have propelled our SEO to the next level
    • Magento plugs in with many third party tools including ERP's, CRM's, shipping tools. It is a core part of our tech stacks and has allowed us to improve our capabilities as a business.
    • Has enabled us to provide a best in class web experience for our customers. We are constantly expanding the capabilities of Magento and to improve sales and grow our business.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Magnolia
    • Magnolia has brought about positive impacts. For instance, we need not outsource web design and marketing services because thanks to this software, we can handle most work inhouse
    • The software is affordable with no compromises on capabilities and therefore it is gives us value for money.
    • The templates makes the whole process easy
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    ScreenShots

    Magnolia Screenshots

    Screenshot of the Magnolia App Launcher, used to switch between workspaces and manage pagesScreenshot of the customer experience. This brings together content and audiovisual digital assets to form more compelling digital experiences.Screenshot of global search that brings relevant content, no matter where it resides.Screenshot of customizing the ecommerce experience.Screenshot of Magnolia Orchestratem where users can manage and track campaignsScreenshot of the WYSIWYG page editor